Cat shit, indeed. What’s most chilling about this is the deeper underpinning, which has been expressed by Chris Hedges in several books, particularly “Empire of Illusion.” It’s simply the inability of many in the US and across the world to perceive and think beyond the extremely thin veneer of celebrity-focus. It’s become an almost universal form of diversion denial among post-modern Homo sapiens. How can we expect, even hope for any improvement in understanding the implications of persecuting whistle-blowers when this distraction is almost continually foisted upon us by all types of media, “mainstream” or otherwise.